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and that's because the education system has developed in a way where people are getting educated for a certain type of job which is a public sector job, not for a private sector job. the incentives are in the wrong place. high fuel subsidies that have sort of characterized the region's type of social safety net is also a big problem. it's not just a big problem because it's costly to defisk, it's also a big problem because they're regressive. they don't even target the population you want to target because rich people have bigger houses, more cars, more appliances, etc. and they tend to go to industry. but by going to industry, there's a double burden there because you're actually subsidizing one input, which is fuel, while taxing labor, yet your main opportunity is a big labor force. you want to take advantage of the human capital, yet policy is pushing industry to take advantage of fuel instead. there's also the poor business climate which has been recognized in a number of reports. we have one that came out before the arab spring privilege to competition where the private sector's
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has achieved the level of diversity that it needs to accomplish its educational mission. the court has to make its own independent judgment. the wave that they would go of making an independent judgment is look at the kind of information the university considered and could be information about the composition of the class, information a backlash from diversity, retention and graduation rates, information about the specifics of the university's context of history. a history of racial incidents or trouble are not. and then what the court has to do is satisfy itself that the university substantiated its conclusion based upon that, based on the uprising considered . needs to consider race to further enhance the educational goals that have been identified as a compelling interest. an idea of the s and number of minority enrollees g tired the burden is going to get harder to meet. a few scenes out want to touch on. first, as we have pointed out, that really relates to merit and that want to make clear that we do not accept the premise of the footnote that she would not have ent
has achieved the level of diversity that it needs to accomplish its educational mission. the court has to make its own independent judgment. the wave that they would go of making an independent judgment is look at the kind of information the university considered and could be information about the composition of the class, information a backlash from diversity, retention and graduation rates, information about the specifics of the university's context of history. a history of racial incidents...
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than the usual education. you learn how to deal with other people and how to deal with the authority and be creative in any job market place. there's discipline associated with it. all these things you learn how to handle money. this is an experience all americans have had since the beginning of the country in the current generation. i think it is a serious problem. >> how does that fit into your "its a jetson's world"? >> i try not to draw attention to the miracles which i think is important to be aware of how wonderful the digital world has become to be conscious of it and then to be aware of the problems in the way the regulations of kind of caused the dilapidation and the physical world but i also try to provide solutions. i think it's important that people realize even in an age of local despotism, you have to still live a full and free life and whenever you can. and so this is one of the solutions i said just for young people is get to work and find a place you can volunteer your efforts and integrate yo
than the usual education. you learn how to deal with other people and how to deal with the authority and be creative in any job market place. there's discipline associated with it. all these things you learn how to handle money. this is an experience all americans have had since the beginning of the country in the current generation. i think it is a serious problem. >> how does that fit into your "its a jetson's world"? >> i try not to draw attention to the miracles which...
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the one part of education that we on is higher education except we are deliberately trying to kill it. taking the best and the brightest. they get their ph.d. your masters and resend them overseas. they can't teach here, do research. they go and build industries overseas and start making the overseas universities better. you're not going to reverse that easily. it is a tipping point. i don't know what. but something like 3 million until jobs in this country that possesses just cannot find qualified people. and it is not incidentally just educated. alabama and places like that, lot of their crops this year just rotted in the field. they could not give people to pick the crop. if this were politically easy would not be having this conversation. he has to make people feel better. my family, make my family feel better. my son is a physics major. you let in a lot of foreign science technology engineering. are you diluting his job market? my sister lives in amarillo, texas. there were. what are you going to tell? >> number one, no one is coming across the border. we spent a fortune on techn
the one part of education that we on is higher education except we are deliberately trying to kill it. taking the best and the brightest. they get their ph.d. your masters and resend them overseas. they can't teach here, do research. they go and build industries overseas and start making the overseas universities better. you're not going to reverse that easily. it is a tipping point. i don't know what. but something like 3 million until jobs in this country that possesses just cannot find...
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managing to out perform and outclass those of high birth and formal education. throughout her career she was honored with the middle, from america and france. but her coup de grace came in 1959 when queen elizabeth awarded her game commander of the british empire for her contribution to 20th century literature. now, how do we account for the success of these two women? pure raw intelligence and drive, certainly, but there were other smart and ambitious women. what distinguished thompson and west was their courage to jettison the constraints of the past, break the rules and forge a path for women in journalism and literature at a time of great political upheaval. their influence was of perception, character, drive, and the guts to speak truth to power, at a time that was cataclysmic in world history. in short, they felt an overriding sense of historical mission, and were willing to do everything to make their voices heard. but there was a danger in their ambition, a dark side, which is exactly why i named my book "dangerous ambition." it was certainly heroic, but
managing to out perform and outclass those of high birth and formal education. throughout her career she was honored with the middle, from america and france. but her coup de grace came in 1959 when queen elizabeth awarded her game commander of the british empire for her contribution to 20th century literature. now, how do we account for the success of these two women? pure raw intelligence and drive, certainly, but there were other smart and ambitious women. what distinguished thompson and...
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i want to educate kids and i want to help them and i want to do what i can for marines. so let's start a scholarship fund. she said, well, on top of that, how much money do you think you can raise? i said, i don't know, about a million dollars. and she said, all right, we'll give you about a year. within four months, i raised $1.2 million. i did on my first 12 scholarships yesterday. it has been great. [applause] with that, i teamed up to go out and try to get veterans jobs. we are going out and speaking and i'm trying to help guys get jobs. i am standing up trying to make a difference. i hope when you read the book, you go home and you read everything that i talk about and how it makes a difference. and i want to say that i am going on and speaking and doing it for the men and women who sacrificed so much. because every day that you don't do that, if you don't do the best you can, you are disgracing all those men and women who have paid so much for. and i want to let you know something. i'm not okay with that. are you? thank you so much. i really appreciate it. [applaus
i want to educate kids and i want to help them and i want to do what i can for marines. so let's start a scholarship fund. she said, well, on top of that, how much money do you think you can raise? i said, i don't know, about a million dollars. and she said, all right, we'll give you about a year. within four months, i raised $1.2 million. i did on my first 12 scholarships yesterday. it has been great. [applause] with that, i teamed up to go out and try to get veterans jobs. we are going out...
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lamontagne on higher education. >> thank you and good evening to you. lamontagne: good evening. >> mr. lamontagne, you have recently stated you support increasing state scholarship aid for students in new hampshire. how much money are we talking about, and who should get that money? how much can the state afford? can you provide some detail for us? lamontagne: thank you very much for the question. as a former teacher myself for three years as a high school social studies teacher, chairman of the state board of education and a father of two wonderful women who went through our school system here in new hampshire, i care deeply about education. and higher education is very important be both at the community college and the four-year degree program level. however, not all of our families can support or can afford what it costs to send their children to higher education. that's why i support a targeted scholarship approach if there's additional monies to be invested in higher education here in new hampshire. beginning with the community college. i have a le
lamontagne on higher education. >> thank you and good evening to you. lamontagne: good evening. >> mr. lamontagne, you have recently stated you support increasing state scholarship aid for students in new hampshire. how much money are we talking about, and who should get that money? how much can the state afford? can you provide some detail for us? lamontagne: thank you very much for the question. as a former teacher myself for three years as a high school social studies teacher,...
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matter of fact, made a film called "0%" to be on nationwide tv soon that actually describes the whole education program. >> what's that experience like teaching there? >> well, i'll tell you it is such an emotional drilling, rewarding experience, both for my wife and i, to teach these young men and some older people who have committed hap -- heinous crimes and murder and what have you, see the error of their ways and turn things around, and that education process as well as the ministry program is extremely important. there's nothing like the graduation ceremony. they bring in a major name of one sort. warren buffet was there a few years ago because his sister, as a matter of fact, is a major supporter of hudson link, the non-profit organization. you go to the graduation ceremony, and it's just incredible. first of all, there's no separation of church and state. they have opening and closing prayers. they are saying amens, hold bibles or korans or what have you, but they always have a valedictorian get up representing the graduates, and there's usually maybe 20-30 students graduating, getting a
matter of fact, made a film called "0%" to be on nationwide tv soon that actually describes the whole education program. >> what's that experience like teaching there? >> well, i'll tell you it is such an emotional drilling, rewarding experience, both for my wife and i, to teach these young men and some older people who have committed hap -- heinous crimes and murder and what have you, see the error of their ways and turn things around, and that education process as well...
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it really is a key issue in what is talked about with regard to education. so many young people don't understand that those subjects are the ones that will be the key for us having a job in the 21st century. it will be very technologically oriented with regard to the positioning for good jobs. people with good math and science backgrounds will be able to find jobs in many areas, and that is a key issue for any young people who are thinking about going to college and trying to pursue higher education and. >> it is time for jane now in calabasas. >> did you attend a catholic high school in new york city? >> yes, i did. i attended an academy. it is closed now, but i graduated in 1965. >> are you so they're? >> didn't have an influence on you? >> i was wondering why the question. >> my high school definitely had an influence on me. it helped me understand what the fundamentals are and foundations of education. i know a lot of my friends went to school where they could take shop and stuff like that. you could not do it at my school. everything was academically or
it really is a key issue in what is talked about with regard to education. so many young people don't understand that those subjects are the ones that will be the key for us having a job in the 21st century. it will be very technologically oriented with regard to the positioning for good jobs. people with good math and science backgrounds will be able to find jobs in many areas, and that is a key issue for any young people who are thinking about going to college and trying to pursue higher...
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population system, although the libyan education system lacks in many ways as we know. but libya, their scenarios -- and i'm happy to talk about it in the q&a -- where libya comes out better than tunisia and egypt because it has those special, special types of resources that could come together to avoid a somalia-like situation. um, just quickly on tunisia, um, and i apologize to those who have heard me speak on this before, i saw the tunisia arab spring as kind of two, split in two to oversimplify. but there was a rural, male, older, more working class, more up employed, angrier arab spring based a lot on the algerian protest which has been sort of roiling since 2005, and there was an urban, both gender, younger, more middle and upper class, more socially networked, more employed, more hopeful, more human rights-oriented arab spring which kind of pushed the revolution over the top. and that's that secondary wrap spring in tunisia revolution that worked because of that. but the first one hasn't been accomplished, and i think the main source of instability in tuni that f
population system, although the libyan education system lacks in many ways as we know. but libya, their scenarios -- and i'm happy to talk about it in the q&a -- where libya comes out better than tunisia and egypt because it has those special, special types of resources that could come together to avoid a somalia-like situation. um, just quickly on tunisia, um, and i apologize to those who have heard me speak on this before, i saw the tunisia arab spring as kind of two, split in two to...
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there's a massive amount of highly-educated youth who want to solve problems. it's not necessarily about these macroeconomic thing, although those are hugely important, it's about putting youth to work, probably worked around university campuses to solving the whole range of social and economic issues. can be done. it's not that expensive to do, and it involves kind of throwing out the old ideas about how institutions need to be organized to address social problems and kind of read the zoning from the ground up. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, bill. that was very concise for you. thank you. thank you for staying within your half hour. [laughter] no, that was great, thank you. i heard sort of a couple of themes when we talked about morocco and algeria today, that demands are for, not for revolutionary change, but for incremental reform and incremental change. and i'm wondering how governments today, old governments or existing governments, new governments are managing popular expectations of people that things can change quickly enough or in a substantive wa
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education. we don't have -- we reached the same criteria. we are still lacking and i get an education at the school. i just don't understand. they have no qualified school that is on the same level with these schools and professors on the same level. uc-irvine saying? >> host: here is the 28 president of the university of texas at austin writing in today's wall street journal traer. he writes history repeats itself when they are in an ironic way the university of texas goes before the supreme court to defend the missions. it lasted 62 years ago when he men's white and african-american work from houston, the university consideration of race that of course had been denied admission because of his race. the university lost that case but america one. they became one of the first leg should universities in the former confederacy to integrate and goes on to see my university kept blacks out. now texas we assure that the grand children can enter. in the opinion back in 2003 adam referred to, justice sa
education. we don't have -- we reached the same criteria. we are still lacking and i get an education at the school. i just don't understand. they have no qualified school that is on the same level with these schools and professors on the same level. uc-irvine saying? >> host: here is the 28 president of the university of texas at austin writing in today's wall street journal traer. he writes history repeats itself when they are in an ironic way the university of texas goes before the...
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these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest: right. >> host: and you quote an ibm researcher, i believe it was an ibm researchers. ralph. who says that global trade is good for these big corporation and hedge fund. it's bad for americans. >> guest: right. it's not good for other, you know, we need to be careful because when we talk kind of beat up a corporation we're talking about the global corporations. with the domestic u.s. corporations being hammered because they had none of the benefit that's global companies do. and they are paying a real price for it. >> host: why do they then, t
these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest:...
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education initiatives like the rest of the top, early education challenge and progress that's for low-income children in our country. a total of $500 million was awarded to schools in the last few months to this competitive grant program. that is good news that is to be celebrated in the overall dropout rates among the nation's students have declined slightly while test scores have risen as well, showing improvements at all levels of education. but even with these positive trends, the report showed us a nation we need to do more, much more for going to have a country that strong and children leading better lives. despite continued economic recovery, families are still feeling the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, stating the obvious. one in five children live below the poverty line. the child poverty rate is at the highest level in two decades. states are feeling ever-growing constraints on budgets as many of you are aware and despite the general belief would need to provide for the needs of the children come in many of these states have targeted programs for funding cuts that are so vit
education initiatives like the rest of the top, early education challenge and progress that's for low-income children in our country. a total of $500 million was awarded to schools in the last few months to this competitive grant program. that is good news that is to be celebrated in the overall dropout rates among the nation's students have declined slightly while test scores have risen as well, showing improvements at all levels of education. but even with these positive trends, the report...
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he knew that education was the key to a better life. but i really think he thought all of us would come right back home and try to work from there. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >>> up next on booktv, jeff cohen and john chase report on the political ascendancy and demise of rod blagojevich, former governor of illinois. the authors utilize several resources including fbi phone transcripts to examine the former governor's actions that led to his impeachment. this is about an hour. [applause] >> well, hi. i'm sure everybody can hear me, but i'll scoot closer. thanks very much for having us out. we appreciate the book stall bringing us in. most people don't realize it's actually the last bookstore in the northern suburbs of chicago. um, that's actually a joke. [laughter] but anyway, we're really happy to be here. this is, actually, our first signing event for this project, so it means a lot to have people out and, um, to hear about the work. so, um, and thanks for the introduction, sara. she's left. >> in t
he knew that education was the key to a better life. but i really think he thought all of us would come right back home and try to work from there. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >>> up next on booktv, jeff cohen and john chase report on the political ascendancy and demise of rod blagojevich, former governor of illinois. the authors utilize several resources including fbi phone transcripts to examine the former governor's actions that led to his...
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it is the same war that makes the white middle class educated american guy, working 70 hours a week, week in, week out, year in, year out, who has accomplished something in his life, feel as if he is resented. it's a war that says our christian values have no place in this world. it is a wall that says no culture is better than any other. no one set of values, no one model worth aspiring to. it is a war that encourages, fosters, harbors, and empowers, radical islam. it is a war whose casualty will ultimately be the western world. mark my words. our war is with these people as much as it is with those whose extremism authored the events of september 11th. america is the one hope for the world. the only shield. the only hedge of protection. the one bloodline that we must make sure together no enemy can cross. it has the model. it has the values. it has the culture. it has the freedom, and it has the constitution. see, america is a conservative idea in a sea of socialism. american values are conservative values. america favors the individual to the collective. patriotism to radical mult
it is the same war that makes the white middle class educated american guy, working 70 hours a week, week in, week out, year in, year out, who has accomplished something in his life, feel as if he is resented. it's a war that says our christian values have no place in this world. it is a wall that says no culture is better than any other. no one set of values, no one model worth aspiring to. it is a war that encourages, fosters, harbors, and empowers, radical islam. it is a war whose casualty...
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for education, he listed occidental college, columbia university, and harvard law. listed his grades is not available. his interests were basketball, marxist literature, writing about myself, talking about myself, making money, and saving the world. and the mainstream media fell in love with this highly qualified applicant. they fell in love with him because they liked the trifecta of the first black male liberal president. it didn't hurt that he went to the college is that the mainstream media adored. sarah palin attended all kinds of colleges, she was a sportscaster, helped her husband, became mayor, and one becoming the first woman to serve as government in the state's entire history. but the media went after her wetter than swoon like they did with president obama. katie couric tried her best to derail sarah palin. she spent a full day with her. she asked sarah palin what newspapers she read. she didn't name any that katie couric approved of. so she did love. this is different. it was sarah palin. katie couric had what she wanted. can you imagine if katie couric
for education, he listed occidental college, columbia university, and harvard law. listed his grades is not available. his interests were basketball, marxist literature, writing about myself, talking about myself, making money, and saving the world. and the mainstream media fell in love with this highly qualified applicant. they fell in love with him because they liked the trifecta of the first black male liberal president. it didn't hurt that he went to the college is that the mainstream media...
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that might be early education. that might be hoped that the family can provide with health care, whatever it is. and we've got to make sure come at i think it's the obligation of every public official, every elected official at every level, and appointed officials to do all they can to make sure that the full measure of that light instead of a child is reached. no matter what the full measure of that potential is. and we've got a ways to go before we can say we're doing that. we've made some great progress under the leadership of senator dodd and others, and we got a long way to go on the public side of this but i think the private sector has got to help us as well. i think both parties have an obligation. it was a great line somewhere, scriptures, about a faithful friend, and you've heard this line before. a faithful friend is a sturdy shelter. he who has found one has found a treasure. and i think when you see the results of a report like this, whether it's a c- or a transient or even a b come into we get to a, i
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and education funding and education infrastructure. so those would give serious consideration by administration. bullock: as seems to me priority budgeting is to be a lot to say i won't give any commitments on what am i to going forward. i mean, we are elected november 6. roger slater stars early january. we have to have a budget and we have to have proposals put together right then and there. i've gone through the missoula college, it's now called missoula college. i've sat in one of the trailers that certainly wouldn't be suitable to live in. it would be hard to learn and peered we need to do more because so much of where our economy is going to go. i mean, with fast-growing science technology, engineering and math jobs. that has to do with her two-year college programs and that is where we seem the most growth in our university system. it's not just missoula. you would have earned the opportunities they are but the diesel program. you can see the opportunities. we need to make sure we commit to making sure our two-year college syste
and education funding and education infrastructure. so those would give serious consideration by administration. bullock: as seems to me priority budgeting is to be a lot to say i won't give any commitments on what am i to going forward. i mean, we are elected november 6. roger slater stars early january. we have to have a budget and we have to have proposals put together right then and there. i've gone through the missoula college, it's now called missoula college. i've sat in one of the...
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>> we have an educational theme, and at this point, too, it's in any war-torn country. people from some of the areas over there, too. and we hope to be able to get into other countries as we expand. we really just started two years ago, and the requests are starting to come in more from individuals but we also have large shipments that go to you humanitarian warehouses and they pull from them, and each one of them is packed with information about matthew and the project and about the -- where it came from. i have wonderful pictures of principals in the schools over there, holding matthew's picture and saying, some day we'd like to meet this woman because we thank her for these tools for our children. so, most of it has been local. it started -- our biggest launch came when teresa actually went into gulf port high school, where she was stationed, my daughter-in-law, and said my husband and i have been president and vice president of our student council and wonder if your student council would like to do this, and she called me two weeks later and said, i have boxes all o
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and also think you see in education. you are the students are working the hardest, and tend to be the honor students who are working to big differentiation in their success. and a credential that they earn. and what i found at harvard business school, the guys in the middle, i work hard and still in the on going off to play tennis. the guys at the bottom who are at risk of failing, they were working hard going if it does work a little bit harder you could have a big impact on whether i stay or go, and so whenever the payoffs got large, relative to the amount of work, i always observed a very big difference in the amount of work that people were willing to do the risks they were willing to take, crazy risks feeding up to 2000. >> host: i would say i think the business school population particularly likely that calculation. >> guest: but i think what comes to the team sport i think you find a lot of those businesses who are motivated to get rich, very caring a lot of water on the team that really makes those companies succ
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they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. and there have, several books published about life in north korea, and we now have a much better picture what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korea refugees are performing a second equally important function. arguably even more important. they are helping to open up their own information starved homeland. just as the world now knows about north korea. north koreans know far more about the world. this too is thanks to the earths of yort koreas who have escaped. how do they do that? think a minute. any immigrant who goes to a new country, what's the first thing they want to do? he wants to let his family back home know he's okay. and them about his new life. but for north koreas who wants to the do that it's next to impossible up. you can't make a phone call to north korea. you can't an e-mail or text message or facebook. you can't even mail a letter. so the exiles have created a black market in information. they hire chinese couriers to cross the border and deliver m
they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. and there have, several books published about life in north korea, and we now have a much better picture what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korea refugees are performing a second equally important function. arguably even more important. they are helping to open up their own information starved homeland. just as the world now knows about north korea. north koreans know far more about the world. this too is thanks...
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it is not an educational game. this is a game for fun but turns out to be incredibly educational. you basically start with a little island and you've got some crops and little huts and build it up and start trading with other island and get wealthier you build a little town and build a little fleet. you can basically play it as warrior or play it as a merchant. you build up wealth. eventually you have all these objectives but it is incredibly complicated. at a certain point my kids were playing and they wanted to build a cathedral. after you gotten a certain amount of wealth you could build a cathedral. they wanted to achieve this state in the game. but here's what you had to do to be able to build a cathedral. get your population wealthy enough to be able to afford it. you had to have enough stone that you would mine to be able to physically build a can three -- cathedral. you had to have certain spices elites of society would have the spices and support building a cathedral. which means you had to have a big fleet of ships to go get the spices somewhere else. which means you had
it is not an educational game. this is a game for fun but turns out to be incredibly educational. you basically start with a little island and you've got some crops and little huts and build it up and start trading with other island and get wealthier you build a little town and build a little fleet. you can basically play it as warrior or play it as a merchant. you build up wealth. eventually you have all these objectives but it is incredibly complicated. at a certain point my kids were playing...
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this was very much upper middle class college-educated suburban people who said this is intolerable, we want action, and literally within six or seven months the environmental protection agency was established by richard nixon who was no tree hugging environmentalists let me tell you. there were seven or eight major pieces of legislation that passed the clean water act and safe drinking water act and so on. a tremendous change. and this was done in response to public pressure. public pressure exhibited by people going out in the streets taking part in demonstrations. next one is the march on washington. we just slipped by the 49th anniversary of the march on washington which on august 28th 1963i was there. it was a festival of democracy and unbelievable moment of shining idealism in america that america's dream of participation in equality for all could actually be realized. i had come from the south and i had seen a kid sitting at the lunch counters and i would walk with the kids and birmingham when they unleashed the police dogs and turned the fire hoses on the demonstrators and i
this was very much upper middle class college-educated suburban people who said this is intolerable, we want action, and literally within six or seven months the environmental protection agency was established by richard nixon who was no tree hugging environmentalists let me tell you. there were seven or eight major pieces of legislation that passed the clean water act and safe drinking water act and so on. a tremendous change. and this was done in response to public pressure. public pressure...
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residential boarding schools that vaguely heard about education for assimilation, educators beating people for speaking the language is the new debt kept cemeteries for the kids. they hear about that but don't realize they don't feel comfortable in the parent teacher conversation. it's like that, but at the schools and other once all of a sudden it turns that on its head and involves native people and parents and changes the education paradigm. they are getting everything else everyone else is getting and it builds trust and report and academic success. so to me languages not just about the language or about the pretty bird, is about identity, educational will accomplish that and success, and another piece of this, too native people get to change over time. we don't just have to be frozen in time when the friends of dances with wolves when it cannot and the response is your people have a beautiful culture. i didn't know what to say. i was thinking at first well we do, yes but you know, we are from the modern age, not from the 1800's, we are from the lakes and once common of the plan
residential boarding schools that vaguely heard about education for assimilation, educators beating people for speaking the language is the new debt kept cemeteries for the kids. they hear about that but don't realize they don't feel comfortable in the parent teacher conversation. it's like that, but at the schools and other once all of a sudden it turns that on its head and involves native people and parents and changes the education paradigm. they are getting everything else everyone else is...
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i zero in in particular on education. i think the most important thing we can do is have a first-class public school system, and the president, his first legislative priority was the no child left behind act. it was the first piece of legislation we introduced. we got it passed that first summer on a bipartisan basis. we even had ted kennedy on board for the effort. it does several things. it establishes high standards. at the same time, it sets up a system of testing with respect to our school system, so we can establish accountability to parents and make certain that they understand how well their students are doing, and they have the opportunity to move students out of poorly performing schools to good schools. it strikes me that that is absolutely the heart of what needs to be done from the standpoint of education. it's also important as we go forward in the next term, we want to be able to take what we've done for elementary education and move it into the secondary education. it's working. we've seen reports now of a
i zero in in particular on education. i think the most important thing we can do is have a first-class public school system, and the president, his first legislative priority was the no child left behind act. it was the first piece of legislation we introduced. we got it passed that first summer on a bipartisan basis. we even had ted kennedy on board for the effort. it does several things. it establishes high standards. at the same time, it sets up a system of testing with respect to our school...
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these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest: right. >> host: and you quote an ibm researcher, i believe it was an ibm researchers. ralph. who says that global trade is good for these big corporation and hedge fund. it's bad for americans. >> guest: right. it's not good for other, you know, we need to be careful because when we talk kind of beat up a corporation we're talking about the global corporations. with the domestic u.s. corporations being hammered because they had none of the benefit that's global companies do. and they are paying a real price for it. >> host: why do they then, t
these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest:...
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i want to say in 2005, i was a counselor educator and i taught a continuing education class counselors throughout the san antonio community. believe me, i used your book, the looks were bewilderment and total aggravation. the title freak them out. learning is prefigured. the kids were teaching me. i didn't know anything about computers. how are we going to use it to guard against plagiarism? this had nothing to do with it. the resistance, as the time went on, and when i wrote my little blurb on amazon at 11 responses, only two people agreed with it. so this resistance among practitioners had to be tremendous. when the little kid wrote the iphone initiative about two or three years ago, and i played that in one of my classes, the ones over 45 and 50 years old work against it. but the younger ones were part of the global village and they were connected like an umbilical cord. so we are getting better at this >> guest: i'm glad the book was helpful. thank you. two things come to mind. when i wrote everything that was good for you, in my book "everything bad is good for you", one thing was
i want to say in 2005, i was a counselor educator and i taught a continuing education class counselors throughout the san antonio community. believe me, i used your book, the looks were bewilderment and total aggravation. the title freak them out. learning is prefigured. the kids were teaching me. i didn't know anything about computers. how are we going to use it to guard against plagiarism? this had nothing to do with it. the resistance, as the time went on, and when i wrote my little blurb on...
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so we were highly educated, mostly white middle-class girls who were told in college that we were very smart and we are very competent, but the word career in the '60s was hardly ever mentioned. some women went on to navy medical school or law school but most women were expected to have a job until they get married and have children. we came to "newsweek" thinking that this is a fabulous, and it was, a very glamorous job to have in those days. we started as actually women were hired on a male desk to deliver the mail. and you graduated to clipper where you clicked newspapers and deliver them to the riders. if you are really good you got to be a researcher. that was a real exciting job because, in fact, you worked on the stories of the week that were breaking news. you worked with writers, reporters, the editors. and those of us who work in the sections in the back of the magazine, from medicine or the arts or lifestyle or religion, did a lot of reporting as did the women in the business section because new york was the financial capital of the world. so we got to be reporting in additi
so we were highly educated, mostly white middle-class girls who were told in college that we were very smart and we are very competent, but the word career in the '60s was hardly ever mentioned. some women went on to navy medical school or law school but most women were expected to have a job until they get married and have children. we came to "newsweek" thinking that this is a fabulous, and it was, a very glamorous job to have in those days. we started as actually women were hired...
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educate all of our children. and i mean really educate them. don't just pump up the greeds each year. in math, science and reading we have fallen behind. not just behind germany and canada but estonia and australia, too. this is the report coming and it reads we must do better. you have heard of pushy parents for a better education for their children. this is a cushy government. leverage is very, very simple. i have got to children in school, and i want for your children what i want for my coming to go to school where discipline is strict, expectations are high and no excuses are accepted for failure. and i don't want great schools just to be the preserve of those that can pay the fee in a nice area. i want them to be open to every child in every neighborhood. the reason every child can go to a school like this is because with this government, more and more are leaving. .. [applause] it is a genuine revolution that is under way. the harris academy it has increased the number of students getting five good gse from 12% when it was on the under lo
educate all of our children. and i mean really educate them. don't just pump up the greeds each year. in math, science and reading we have fallen behind. not just behind germany and canada but estonia and australia, too. this is the report coming and it reads we must do better. you have heard of pushy parents for a better education for their children. this is a cushy government. leverage is very, very simple. i have got to children in school, and i want for your children what i want for my...
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so, the people who get out, have enough of them that they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. there've been several books published and we now have a much better picture of what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korean refugees are performing a second equally important function. i do believe more important. they are hoping their own information starved homeland, just as the world now knows more about north koreans, north koreans still far more about the period. this is to thanks to the efforts of north koreans who have escaped. how did they do that? think a minute. an immigrant. with the first thing he wants to do? he wants to let his family back home know he's okay and tell them about his new life. before a north korean who wants to do that, it's next to impossible. you can't make a phone call to north korea. you can't send an e-mail or text message or facebook and you can't even mail a letter. so the exiles have created a black market in information. they hire chinese careerist across the border and deliver messages, or sometimes they deliver ch
so, the people who get out, have enough of them that they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. there've been several books published and we now have a much better picture of what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korean refugees are performing a second equally important function. i do believe more important. they are hoping their own information starved homeland, just as the world now knows more about north koreans, north koreans still far more about the...
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i really wish we had a catchy term for a tax-exempt educational group. if we had something that would allow us to shorthand would probably help a lot in the educational aspect for readers. >> they have 501-c4 and their like were out of here. the mac forget readers, editors. >> so what we see as were entering a universe where i think brad probably thinks this is positive, where more money is flowing outside of party institutions, outside of candidates. more of a controlled by consolations a political operative and donors with ties to different candidates. and that is where i see us going. i think it is a consultant stream. it is like a gold mine for a political consultant who can make so much money. you don't have to answer to candidates or candidates spouses or travel anywhere. just in a control room in alexandria, chiasm collector checks. it's a great job and it's the future of politics. >> we've got at least one clear industry. so with a whole bunch of questions here and for people on twitter, you can use the hash tag investigate this and i'll be check
i really wish we had a catchy term for a tax-exempt educational group. if we had something that would allow us to shorthand would probably help a lot in the educational aspect for readers. >> they have 501-c4 and their like were out of here. the mac forget readers, editors. >> so what we see as were entering a universe where i think brad probably thinks this is positive, where more money is flowing outside of party institutions, outside of candidates. more of a controlled by...
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we do a tremendous amount for education and veterans. we have hired, and if you're a veteran in this room thank you very much for serving this country, we have hired 4800 veterans this year in the last 18 months or so. there is this thing called 100,000 jobs which we help starting hired 28,000 veterans and we have done 4500 ourselves. while other people are talking, we are doing. before this program we will do 1000 so we try to participate and to me it's all the same thing, healthy vibrant company, makes it all possible. the dying company, now been it is possible. i will put it in that same thing by the way, people say as an employee or shareholder if i don't make customers happy there is nothing else. if our employees don't do a good job -- it's all important to me. i try to run a fair profit, take care of your own people in your clients. let me go back to the mistake issue one more time. here's a question for you all. we have something like $15 billion in exposure in derivatives and hedging and bouncing around. you could easily tell me
we do a tremendous amount for education and veterans. we have hired, and if you're a veteran in this room thank you very much for serving this country, we have hired 4800 veterans this year in the last 18 months or so. there is this thing called 100,000 jobs which we help starting hired 28,000 veterans and we have done 4500 ourselves. while other people are talking, we are doing. before this program we will do 1000 so we try to participate and to me it's all the same thing, healthy vibrant...
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dimension education and implied that you do. i know education, you're passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, god bless or. her reward is in heaven, right? i say with education, america needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they're deserting. teachers need to be paid more. i come from a house full of school teachers. my grandma was from my dad, he's a school teacher, has been for many years. my brother who i think is a schoolteacher -- the best school teacher of the year. here's a shout out to all those third grade. you get extra credit for watching this debate. education in america has been in some sense some of our states just accepted to be a little bit lax, and we've got to increase the standards, no child left behind was implemented. it's not doing the job. we need flexibility in no child left behind. we need to put more of an emphasis on the profession of teaching. we need to make sure that education in either one of o
dimension education and implied that you do. i know education, you're passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, god bless or. her reward is in heaven, right? i say with education, america needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they're deserting. teachers need to be paid more. i come from a house full of school teachers. my grandma was from my dad, he's a school teacher, has been for many...
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i think just the height of governmental negligence to have our top schools educating foreign students in requiring them to leave, no place should do that. and it is part of an economic strategy for growth in the future. you want to be a magnet for the best talent in the world, and we got to make no bones about it, we're going to compete for the best talent because we're the best environment for the talent spent before we go to questions, jay, then i want to talk about campaign financing. >> so you're looking at california right now, and that massive increase in the cost of gasoline, when matt said, when consumers are paying for gasoline they are not able to purchase their basic commodities every day. so what's happening? governor brown is proposing a relaxation of regulations that impact the energy industry. that is clearly a concession that regulation drives the cost of energy. we've got to have that same focus and discussion here in washington. because what's happening in california can happen all across this country. >> hawaii, i heard -- >> when we do the big deal everybody thinks
i think just the height of governmental negligence to have our top schools educating foreign students in requiring them to leave, no place should do that. and it is part of an economic strategy for growth in the future. you want to be a magnet for the best talent in the world, and we got to make no bones about it, we're going to compete for the best talent because we're the best environment for the talent spent before we go to questions, jay, then i want to talk about campaign financing....
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he voted against the department of education. he voted against funding for meals on wheels for seniors. he voted against a holiday for martin luther king. he voted against a resolution calling for the release of nelson mandela in south africa. it's amazing to hear him criticizing my record or john kerry's. >> 30 seconds. >> i think his record speaks >> the vice-president, one of the world's largest banks said that spain is making positive steps to get back on sound fiscal round. but the peterson institute international economics in washington d.c. this is an hour and ten minutes. >> let me welcome all of you today to our peterson institute for international economics. the crisis of the euro continues to be at the center of the global economic agenda. spain has now moved close to the center of the crisis of the euro . the spanish making system is obviously a critical part. not only the leading spanish bank but the largest bank in the entire eurozone. at think we have an ideal speaker today to address the whole series of problems t
he voted against the department of education. he voted against funding for meals on wheels for seniors. he voted against a holiday for martin luther king. he voted against a resolution calling for the release of nelson mandela in south africa. it's amazing to hear him criticizing my record or john kerry's. >> 30 seconds. >> i think his record speaks >> the vice-president, one of the world's largest banks said that spain is making positive steps to get back on sound fiscal...
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you appear moderately educated man. you ice highly trained intellect not the way those who taught you intended way you should but use it as highly sophisticated weapon, don't you? you have finest university teaches in the world. how do you put it to us? common debt veriment to man. for disintegration of society that made it possible for you and pity you're believed in by the power of young with highly intelligence you can move mountains. >> what about my family's freedom and way of living? you don't concern about that. you don't want your warped and distorted sensibilities to interfear with your way of life. >> you're boiling over with energy. you want to change thing. so you look around. see a lot of things that need changing. people kill each other and they shouldn't. people are you hungry and she shouldn't be. people are cold and they're illiterate. they need shelter, they need books. the world needs changing. well it does need changing but if you're going to live with theries of us need to learn to play the game by
you appear moderately educated man. you ice highly trained intellect not the way those who taught you intended way you should but use it as highly sophisticated weapon, don't you? you have finest university teaches in the world. how do you put it to us? common debt veriment to man. for disintegration of society that made it possible for you and pity you're believed in by the power of young with highly intelligence you can move mountains. >> what about my family's freedom and way of...
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i really wish we had a catchy term for a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) educational group. something like semi-super pac or something that would allow us to shorthanded, would probably help a lot in the educational aspect, for readers. >> to get people to read. >> forget readers, editors. editors don't want to see 501(c)(4). so what i see is we're entering, where brad probably thinks this is positive, where more money is flowing outside of party institutions, outside of candidates, more of a controlled by constellation of political operatives and donors with ties to different candidates. and that is kind of where i see us going. i think it's a consultancy dream. i mean, it's like a gold mine for a political consultant. you can make so much freaking money. you don't have to answer to candidates or candidates spouses spouses. said in a control in alexandria, cat, collect checks. it's a great job and it's the future of politics. >> we've got at least one growing industry. so we have a whole bunch of questions here and also for people who are on twitter, you can use the hash ta
i really wish we had a catchy term for a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) educational group. something like semi-super pac or something that would allow us to shorthanded, would probably help a lot in the educational aspect, for readers. >> to get people to read. >> forget readers, editors. editors don't want to see 501(c)(4). so what i see is we're entering, where brad probably thinks this is positive, where more money is flowing outside of party institutions, outside of candidates, more of a...
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it cuts education by $450 billion. it does, it does virtually nothing except continue to increase the tax cuts for the very wealthy. and, you know, we've had enough of this. the idea that he's so concerned about these deficits, i pointed out he voted to put two wars on a credit card -- >> moderator: we're going to the closing statements in a -- ryan: not raising taxes is not cutting taxes, and by the way -- cut by 3% a year instead of 4.5% -- >> moderator: let me, let me calm down things here just for a minute, and i want to talk to you very briefly before we go to closing statements about your own personal character. if you are elected, what could you both give to this country as a man, as a human being that no one else could? ryan ryan honesty. no one else could? there are plenty of find people who could lead this country. but what you need are people who when they say they're going to do something, they go do it. what you need are when people see problems, they offer solutions to fix those problems. we're not gettin
it cuts education by $450 billion. it does, it does virtually nothing except continue to increase the tax cuts for the very wealthy. and, you know, we've had enough of this. the idea that he's so concerned about these deficits, i pointed out he voted to put two wars on a credit card -- >> moderator: we're going to the closing statements in a -- ryan: not raising taxes is not cutting taxes, and by the way -- cut by 3% a year instead of 4.5% -- >> moderator: let me, let me calm down...